A TENNESSE MAN charged with hacking and posting Bell Canada client information has been sentenced to 45 months in a U.S. prison.
According to an Ottawa Citizen report, the 22-year old man was a member of a hacking collective known as NullCrew. Using an undercover FBI server that NullCrew had been given access to through a confidential FBI informant, the man posted approximately 12,700 logins and passwords plus Tweeted a link to the data.
Canadian prosecutors said that millions of files were exfiltrated during the hack, and that 300,000 of them contained client information, continues the report.
The man allegedly worked with a 15-year old Canadian teen, also a purported member of NullCrew, on that and other cyberattacks on U.S. businesses, universities and government departments between October 2012 and April 2014. The teen was charged but did not receive a jail sentence.
